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Justin K. Thannhauser

Thannhauser, Galerie

German, 1892 - 1976

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Honoré Daumier, Fugitives (Emigrants), model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893, bronze, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.25

Fugitives (Emigrants)

Honoré Daumier · model c. 1850/1852, cast 1893 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1943.3.25

Pablo Picasso, Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso], 1901, oil on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.b

Woman Sitting in a Garden [verso]

Pablo Picasso · 1901 · oil on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.b

A young man and boy look at a man laid out on a bed in this horizontal composition. All three people have white-colored skin and are loosely painted, as is the incomplete setting. The man lies with his eyes closed on the bed with his head to our left and feet to our right. He is on a baby-blue field, perhaps a blanket, and his head is propped up on a thick white pillow. He has black hair and delicate features, and his hands are together in prayer over his belly. The white ruffled collar and a diamond made up of smaller red, blue, yellow, and black diamonds are painted on his shoulder. The rest of his body is blocked in loosely with lapis blue except the cuff we can see, which is bright white. The young man and boy look on from near the man’s shins on the far side of the bed. Both have close-cropped hair. The young man cranes his neck forward, and his head and shoulders are surrounded by a white field against the brown cardboard on which this is painted. His garment is white over the shoulders and red on the torso. Only the head and neck of the boy are visible beyond the prone man. The artist signed the work in black in the lower right corner, “Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso, The Death of Harlequin [recto], 1905, gouache over charcoal on cardboard, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1996.129.1.a

The Death of Harlequin [recto]

Pablo Picasso · 1905 · gouache over charcoal on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1996.129.1.a

Fields of elephant gray, coral orange, and turquoise surround a fan-like, abstracted palm frond near the center of this vertical, abstract painting. The fronds of the palm radiate like a starburst against unpainted, cream-white canvas. Three black, vertical bands spaced behind the palm suggest tree trunks, with the rightmost trunk dotted with spring green, perhaps representing moss or the leaves of a vine. The fields of gray to either side of the frond, the turquoise areas below the gray, and the coral at the bottom center are painted with visible brushstrokes, creating a mottled effect. Rounded turquoise forms above the gray are silhouetted against a field of pale blue, perhaps representing the sky along the top edge. A few pointed, oval leaves painted spring green with black outlines dip into the scene from the top of the composition. The artist signed the work in dark green paint in the lower right: “Henri-Matisse.”
Henri Matisse, Palm Leaf, Tangier, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1978.73.1

Palm Leaf, Tangier

Henri Matisse · 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1978.73.1

A young girl with pale skin and long brown hair looks at us as she braces a tall, wooden hoop with one hand by her hip in this vertical painting. The girl stands close to us with her body angled to our right, and she looks at us from the corners of her dark blue eyes. Her delicate nose, rosy cheeks, and closed, rose-pink lips are set in a heart-shaped face. She has wavy, chestnut-brown hair that falls loosely around her shoulders. Bangs brush across her forehead, and her hair is pulled back in half, tied in a pale blue ribbon. She wears a sky-blue dress with a ruffle around the wide collar. The long sleeves are rolled back over her wrists, and the dress is tied at the waist with an aquamarine-blue sash tied into a bow at her lower back. The knee-length skirt flares out from the waist. She wears ice-blue socks pulled halfway up her shins and black, low-heeled Mary Jane-style shoes tied with bows over the arches. One foot turns to rest on the bottom edge of the wooden hoop she braces with her left hand, farther from us. She holds a short stick by her side with the other hand. The ground around her is painted with blended areas of muted topaz blue, peach, and canary yellow. The top third of the background is a loosely painted garden, with lime and spring-green leaves, and a cluster of shell-pink flowers to our right. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “Renoir. 85.”
Auguste Renoir, Girl with a Hoop, 1885, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.58

Girl with a Hoop

Auguste Renoir · 1885 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.58

Roger de La Fresnaye, The Bathers, 1912, oil on canvas, Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 2000.51.1

The Bathers

Roger de La Fresnaye · 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2000.51.1

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, A Monkey Playing on His Back, 1880, graphite on wove paper, Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef, 2001.57.1.a

A Monkey Playing on His Back

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1880 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2001.57.1.a

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A Lady with a Fancy Hairdo and Hat

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1880 · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2001.57.1.b

Shown from the chest up, a woman with a pale, peachy skin wears a turban and a goldenrod-yellow jacket in this stylized, vertical portrait painting. Many of the features and forms are outlined in gray and filled in with areas of mottled color so brushstrokes are visible. The woman’s shoulders face us, and she tips her head a little to our right. One brown eye, to our left, seems to look at us, and the other might look off over our right shoulder. Her nose is indicated with a wavy line for a pointed tip, and her small pink lips are closed. She has a square jaw and a narrow chin. Black hair curls over her ears. The rest of her hair is covered by a turban, which touches the top edge of the composition and is pale pink to our left and ivory white to our right. Her yellow garment is fastened at her throat and has rows of darker gold circles, perhaps buttons or other trim, down the open front over a white shirt. The papaya-orange corners of a square-backed chair is behind her shoulders, about halfway up the picture. The background is streaked with laurel green, flax, and lemonade yellow to our left, and deepens to dark, pewter gray to our right. The artist signed and dated the painting with olive-green script in the upper left corner: “Henri-Matisse 1917.”
Henri Matisse, Lorette with Turban, Yellow Jacket, 1917, oil on wood, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.39

Lorette with Turban, Yellow Jacket

Henri Matisse · 1917 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1963.10.39

Max Beckmann, Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak), 1934, oil on canvas, Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman, 2006.164.1

Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)

Max Beckmann · 1934 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2006.164.1

Bibliography

1916

  • Katalog der Modernen Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München. Munich, 1916

1978

  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott. The Guggenheim Museum Justin K. Thannhauser Collection. New York, 1978:13-15

  • Sammlung Justin Thannhauser. Exh. cat. Kunstmuseum, Bern, 1978.